Somebody Translated the Bible Into Emoji

And happy-face-with-halo saw the light bulb, and that it was thumbs-up.

Yes, emoji have made the leap from texts and Snapchat to holy scripture. An anonymous translator has turned all 66 books of the King James Bible into unicode emoji and other internet slang. Bible Emoji, billed as "Scripture 4 Millennials," is now available as a $2.99 app.

📖 of Genesis: 01:006:020 (1/2)

Of 🐔🐔 after their kind, & of 🐮🐮 after their kind, of every creeping thing of the 🌎 after his kind,

"I thought if we fast forwarded 100 years in the future, an emoji bible would exist," said 😎. "So I thought it'd be fun to try to make it ...I wanted to make it similar to how you might text or tweet a bible verse, by shrinking the total character count."

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